Is it just me or is attempting to stealth BM, FTP, homebrew COMPLETELY POINTLESS??

[JeffShacks]

I've been noticing on a lot of PS3 hacking sites about attempting to stealth backup manager, FTP manager, and other homebrew into looking like other PS1 or PS2 games booting up on the system. Apparently whenever we boot any of these applications -- it logs it on the PS3 system as "pushlist" files that can be deleted from the system with level 2 access. The idea is that (hopefully) when we all get back on PSN... Sony will see the logs and ban us all.

Is there even a point though? It would be too tedious for us to hex edit every new homebrew app into looking like a PS1 or PS2 game. Also, we still can't go online with 3.41. What do you guys recommend? Stick with the original backup manager, FTP, apps... or hex edit and attempt to go stealth every time before the homebrew authors implement it themselves?

Here's what I'm referring to:
http://www.maxconsole.net/showthread...Files-and-More

[sonnyz]

I just figured it's not worth the trouble. I don't find PSN that useful anyways though.

[Nevada]

Whenever your ps3 crashes, if it's connected to the net, regardless of firmware, it sends a crash report to :
http://crepo.ww.dl.playstation.net/d...onfig.xml?log=
followed by a key containing details of the crash, including what application crashed.

Chances are if the report also contains your ps3's hardware id, even if you remove all remnants of jailbreak and update you could still end up banned.

My suggestion is add crepo.ww.dl.playstation.net to blocklist on your router.

[Saner]

I dont use PSN (well i bought FFVIII, and am a little gutted I wont be able to re-use it, but I will just buy the disks) so for me I dont care if the machine is banned.

I am firmly on the, if you want to use PSN, either dont exploit the system, or buy a second box for online / PSN